Archives / 2016 / February

Ask any younger person, as I do with my residents each week, whether they read the newspaper or watch the nightly news and no hands will go up. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, though it is different than how previous generations acquired news and interacted with media. You must pay attention to the trends in media consumption amongst this group, as they are your patients and/or parents o... »

I’ve been a grumpy and cantankerous curmudgeon for years about the ills of always-on social media, constant email connectivity, relentless meetings and silly technology productivity tools that actually take more time than getting out an old fashioned pen and paper or reading a map once, then driving the route once and having a new city more or less memorized without further need to use GPS every 1... »

Someone once said you should never talk about religion, money or politics. I suppose the first nitwit to utter this horrible advice wanted to fly below the radar and was horrified at the possibility he might offend someone. I talk about religion, politics and money frequently. But, I have no desire to fly under the radar and I’m comfortable with the fact that you and I might disagree, even though ... »

Though I’m guessing all of you were required to read Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations, most of you will be surprised that Smith, the father of modern capitalism, had a whole lot of advice about how to live a meaningful life, how to treat others and what it really means to pursue happiness successfully. These concepts were fleshed out in a book that very few of my clients have ever heard of: Adam Smi... »